Tuesday afternoon

Weird...I'm almost done here in Dan and I feel in some ways like I just got here. I also in some ways feel like I've been here forever. Woke up this morning feeling pretty good and went out to dig. I was fine, but moving slowly to take care of myself.

I found out, though everyone else did yesterday, that there was a fire at Dan over the weekend. It burned 15% of the Nature Reserve, though not in any of the sections that we were digging in. The fire took out the mill down by out water supply stream and quite a bit of forest. Eva even found a dead chameleon that she took to and brought it back to our site to keep it close (it's pretty gross at this point). It's pretty tragic to see, where it was so dark going to get our water for the day is now bright even early in the morning. It's a little heart-breaking. And there was some talk about the fact that the locks had been tampered with so that the fire trucks couldn't get in...I'm not sure exactly the case, but there it is. David did say that he could see a wall now that was hidden, the silver lining.

I made it pretty well until breakfast, and ate a lot since I was hungry, but then faded for an hour and had to quit at about 10ish. They brought me back to the kibbutz at about 11 am and I slept until lunch. Today for lunch we had tuna stuffed artichoke, not bad actually. I am trying to get back up to speed but it's taking awhile. I feel frustrated with my body for failing me.

Since I haven't yet given you these links, if you want to know more about what I'm doing here are some sites, the first is a wikipedia description and the second is the dig site. Much love!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tel_Dan

http://www.findadig.com/digs/tel_dan